Hi! On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:17:51 -0500, Rusty Shackleford <rs@natchie.mine.nu> wrote:

I'm new to lisp, so I apologize if this error is obvious.

I don't know if it's obvious but it's not really Lisp-related... :)

Anyway, I installed the cl-gd debian package, and tried to run the example program posted on the cl-gd website,

Which one? The first one called "simple example?"

but I keep getting this "could not find font" error.

Looks like you don't have the font that is needed... :) If we're talking about the same example then it uses the "Verdana" font which is part of the "msttcorefonts" Debian package. If you have this package installed you either need to supply a full font path like "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana.ttf" or you have to set the Environment variable DEFAULT_FONTPATH (see the comment in the example). See <http://weitz.de/cl-gd/#draw-freetype-string> for all the details.

Here's the exact output of the program:

#P"/usr/lib/cl-gd/cl-gd-glue.so" debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread 8467: Error in FreeType library: Could not find/open font

I have the libfreetype6-devel package installed.

That should not be necessary.

Do I need to do something with namespaces in my program?

Nope. Hope that helps, Edi.